Écouen

Écouen is a city of the Val-d'Oise in Île-de-France of approximately 7300 inhabitants (2004), located at approximately 19 kilometers in the north of Paris and at 15 kilometers of the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle.

Its inhabitants is called Écouennais (be).

Geography

Écouen is located on the septentrional side of a Butte-témoin crowned by the Forêt of Écouen and dominating the flat of France, with 19 kilometers in the north of Paris.

Heraldic

History

The name comes from the anthroponyme Gallic Scotus and the Gallic magos , gone.

The hill of Écouen is a pilot hillock dominating the flat of France. Placed between the synclinal one of Saint-Denis and the anticline of Country of Bray, it prolongs in south-east the Vallée of Montmorency of which it is separated by the valley from the Petit Rosne.

Écouen is the cradle of the famous family of the Bouchard of Montmorency, which was to have a keep there as of the first centuries of our era.

In 632: " The good king Dagobert made present ground and seigniory of Écouen at the basilica of Saint-Denis. This village offered is named then: Iticiniscoam. It joined together current Écouen and Ézanville. " Iticin" is translated into Latin by " ville" , which gave Ézanville. " Iticiniscoam" contracted in " Iscoam" what gave Écouen."

Extract of: History of the city and all the diocese of Paris , by the abbot Lebeuf. Fechoz & Letouzey, Paris 1883.

In turn property of Montmorency at the 11th century, then of the duchess of Angouleme at the 17th century, of the Cop to the Revolution.

Napoleon {{Romanian|I|1}} {{er}} installed there the Maison of education of the girls of the Legion of honor which remained there until 1962.

Its history, the Common one inherited a Château worthy of those of the Loire Valley, of a church of the 16th century to the remarkable stained glasses, of a barn with said, without counting a school of painting of the 19th century, which constitute an inheritance of a very great richness.

Demography

Administration

Écouen is the seat of a jurisdiction of authority. The common one belongs to the jurisdiction of great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

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Transport

Écouen is served by the station of Écouen - Ézanville, on the network Transilien Paris-North, branches Paris-North - Persan-Beaumont/Luzarches. The station is served at a rate of a slow train to the 1/4 of hour in off-peak hours and at the same frequency in rush hours, the trains being on the other hand direct of Paris with Sarcelles - Saint-Brice. The service road is reduced to a slow train to the 1/2 hour in evening (after 20:30). It is necessary from 16 to 22 mn of way starting from the station of North.

It is also served by the line of bus the RATP 269, connecting the station of Garges - Sarcelles to the town hall of Attainville.

Tourist monuments and places

The city has a castle 16th century, where was installed the national Musée of the Renaissance, on the initiative of president Giscard d'Estaing.

The castle belonged to the Duc Anne de Montmorency under François I {{er}} and Henri II.

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